比諾獎有錢:霍金獲全球最奢侈物理學獎
His mind has grappled with space and time, and explored the strange beauty of black holes aglow, but in recent days a more earthly problem has occupied the world's most famous scientist.
他的思想已經掌握了空間和時間，並探索過黑洞發出紅光的奇怪美景，但最近幾天一個更加實際的問題已經使這位世界上最著名科學家忙碌起來。
Stephen Hawking, the former Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, must ponder how to spend $3m (£1.8m) that has landed in his bank account after winning the most lucrative science prize ever established.
斯蒂芬•霍金，前劍橋大學盧卡遜數學教授，在獲得自設立以來最有錢的科學獎之後，必須得考慮如何花完落在他銀行賬戶的300萬美元(即180萬英鎊) 。
The renowned physicist who missed his 70th birthday celebrations through illness in January, has won the Special Fundamental Physics Prize for a lifetime of achievements, including the discovery that black holes emit radiation, and his deep contributions to quantum gravity and aspects of the early universe.
這位因病錯過了他在1月的70歲生日慶典的著名物理學家，因其一生的成就（包括髮現黑洞會發出輻射以及他在量子重力和早期宇宙各個方面的深入貢獻）贏得了這一特殊的基礎物理學獎。
The award is one of several set up in July by Yuri Milner, a Russian internet mogul, who quit his PhD in physics and made a billion dollars from investments in social media and other companies, such as Twitter, Facebook and Groupon.
這個獎項是由Yuri Milner7月份設立的幾個獎項中的其中一個，一位俄羅斯的互聯網大亨，他放棄了物理學博士學位，從投資社會媒體和其他公司比如Twitter、Facebook和Groupon中掙得了十億美元。
The prize winners were selected by an independent committee of physicists, such as d Witten, the string theorist, and Alan Guth, who proposed the theory of cosmic inflation. The awards can go to much younger researchers than typically receive the Nobel prize, as experimental proof of theoretical work is not required.
獲獎者是由物理學家組成的獨立委員會選定，例如艾德•威滕，弦理論學家和提出了宇宙膨脹理論的Alan Guth。這個獎項可以頒給更年輕的研究人員相比通常獲諾貝爾獎來說，因爲理論工作的實驗證明不是必須的。
In an email to the Guardian, Professor Hawking said he was "delighted and honoured" to receive the prize. "No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. Nevertheless prizes like these play an important role in giving public recognition for achievement in physics. They increase the stature of physics and interest in it," he wrote.
在給《衛報》的一封電子郵件中，霍金教授表示他“很高興和榮幸”領取獎金。“沒有人會帶着獲獎的目的進行物理研究。它是發現前人不知道的東西的一種快樂。然而這樣的獎項在讓公衆認識物理學成就中扮演着重要的角色。它們提高了物理學的地位和其中的興趣，”他寫道。
"Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low," he added.
“雖然幾乎每個理論物理學家都同意我的預測，黑洞應該像一個發熱體那樣發光，實驗驗證將是非常困難的，因爲肉眼可見的黑洞溫度是如此之低，”他補充道。
The physicist, who rose to fame with his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, and made guest appearances on The Simpsons and Star Trek, has not settled on how to spend the windfall. "I will help my daughter with her autistic son, and maybe buy a holiday home, not that I take many holidays because I enjoy my work in theoretical physics," he wrote.
這位物理學家以他1988年的著作《時間簡史》一舉成名，客串過《辛普森一家》和《星際迷航》，還沒有決定如何花費這筆意外之財。“我將幫助我的女兒和她患有自閉症的兒子，也許會買一個度假別墅，不是我有很多假日，因爲我喜歡從事理論物理的工作，”他寫道。
Nima Arkani-Hamed, a member of the selection committee, said: "In the case of Hawking, what can you say? This is an absolutely true giant of modern physics. He's done massive, massive things."
Nima Arkani-Hamed，評選委員會的一個成員，他說：“對於霍金，你能說什麼呢？這是一個絕對真實的現代物理學巨人。他所做的是重大的、重大的事情。”
Milner, 51, holds an advanced degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University, but abandoned a PhD at the Russian Academy of Sciences for an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He remains a physics enthusiast though, and established the awards to recognise the greatest minds in fundamental physics, and help them to make significant contributions in the future.
Milner，51歲，擁有一個從莫斯科州立大學獲得的理論物理學高等學位，但爲了賓夕法尼亞大學沃頓商學院的MBA放棄了在俄羅斯科學院的博士學位。但他仍然是一個物理愛好者，並設立了在認可基礎物理學方面最偉大的獎項，幫助他們在未來作出卓越的貢獻。
The conditions attached to the prizes require the winners to give at least one annual public lecture on their field. Most of the talks will be recorded and posted on the website.
這一獎項的附加條件要求獲獎者關於他們的領域至少做一次年度公開演講。大多數演講將被錄下來並在網站上發佈。
